Thalamocortical projection from the ventral posteromedial nucleus sends its collaterals to layer I of the primary somatosensory cortex in rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 367, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 394-398

  Oda, Satoko ^a   Kishi, Kiyoshi ^a   Yang, Junli ^a   Chen, Shaoyun ^a   Yokofujita, Junko ^a   Igarashi, Hiroaki ^a   Tanihata, Sachiko ^a   Kuroda, Masaru ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Rat; Somatosensory system; Thalamocortical pathway; VPM

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INJECTION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTEROMEDIAL VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; LYSINE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 4444332545     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.06.042     Document Type: Article

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